Wormwood

by G.P. Taylor

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER His first novel, Shadowmancer, reached #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List in 2004 and has been translated into 48 languages. This novel, Wormwood is another New York... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571221505
• ISBN13: 9780571221509
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Lots of fun and excitement!

I really enjoyed it. It's fantasy. Lots of action and horrible characters. The world is ending and a young maid who is stealing from her young employer decides to side with evil. Her home life is unfortunate with an angel tied up and tortured by her abusive father and his awful accomplice. Don't know about critical thinking and young readers. But I wish books like these were around when I was in school.

It was an ok read the but i do not recommend this to the age group in which it was intended for strictly due to the fact the main premise of the book is to nudge young minds away from critical thinking. It urges them not to give science any credence and to ignore it all in the name of ... you guessed it god ...

Best New Fantasy Book

This is the best fantasy book I've read in a long time. Having read hundreds of books in this genre, and been disappointed by a lot of recent authors, I was overjoyed to find this book. There has been a complaint that it is wordy. That is only true if you think Lord of the Rings is wordy. This book is not on a first grade reading level, like so many modern books. It is definitely in my top ten, along with Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Redwall, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Hero and the Crown.

A very entertaining story mixed with adventure and suspense

I enjoyed the novel very much. I do not think the reader has to be aware of the bible's comet to enjoy the story (compared to the other reviewers). I enjoyed the variety of characters and how they were slowly woven into the story to bring the plot together. The story has greed (those who wanted to rule the world), a dangerous book called the Nemorensis, love, friendship, thieves, science, history (London 1756), regret of a fallen angel named Tegatus, and fantasy (a creature called Sekaris that likes to kill) to create a flavorful story. I enjoyed how the variety of characters met out of need or accident and how the fantasy was woven in to make everything plausible. I found "Wormwood" to be suspenseful and I could hardly put the book down.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE REVIEWS!!!!

Do not listen to all of these reviews! I loved this book. And all of G.P. Taylors other books. You have to pick this book up and read it yourself. Not having some other person judging for you. YOU have to read it. P.S. If you liked Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Eargon or Eldest read this book. But I recommend you read Shadowmancer, them Wormwood and then Tersias the Oracle and then his new one called The Curse of Salamander Street but that will not be out until September. READ THIS BOOK! It was great!!!

I love G.P. Taylor's writing!

G.P. Taylor is my favorite author. His books are hard to put down; whenever I start one of his books I know I won't stop reading until I finish it. The plots are wonderful, suspenseful and interesting. I own Shadowmancer and Wormwood and am planning to buy Tersias the Oracle this weekend.

Good, although perhaps not great, read

First off, I am a sucker for any book that takes place in London during the past 300 years. That gets the book one or two stars without trying too hard. But even better than that, the book is a solid, largely entertaining read. No great moral or philosophical lessons to be learned - even though we have a number of fallen angels, guardian angels, and angels come to retrieve their fallen comrades. And we have a underlying discussion of why earth is about to get annihilated by a comet - where is God and why is he doing this - but largely this is a enjoyable fantasy about good and evil, various mystical and fantastical creatures, and a number of angels in various states of grace or disgrace - all supposedly vying for control of London and the world at large. Of course we really find out that what they are most interested in is their own longevity rather than any particular loftier goal. I particularly enjoyed the local "color" of London during the 1700's. I learned a few things about how the poorer sorts slept in a rooming house when they could not afford the price of a bed. I thought the writing nicely atmospheric, and I enjoyed most of the characterizations. The plot moves fairly well, although I will admit that by page 200, I was ready for the comet to hit, characters to end up wherever they were going, and for the book to end. I do not always look for deep reading - and this was a solid read. I read the whole book on a one day business trip - its excellent plane reading - and then I was ready for something a little more substantial. All in all ... recommended with reservations.